From: Larry Letterman (lletterm@cisco.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 14:39:11 GMT-3
the 6509 is faster than the 7200 due to L3 switching or MLS.
The hardware switching capability in the L3 switching fabric
outperforms the 7200...we use the 6509/7600 switches with the
msfc-2 router modules for all our campus network needs.
Larry Letterman
Network Engineer
Cisco Systems
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Weidong Xiao
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 7:23 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: OT: 6509 or 7200, which is better for border router?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm in a process of designing a data centre. I got several
> 7200vxr and 6509 at my disposal.
>
> 1. What kind of cpu is 7200 running? NPE400 or R7000?
>
> 2. If both 6509 and 7200vxr are running R7000 CPU, then 7200vxr
> seems better from an old-fashioned router point of view (because
> it's running at 350Mhz, while 6509 is at 300Mhz). But 6509's RP
> is actually a 7600 router, how can it be slower than 7200?
>
> 3. From CCO, I got:
> NPE-400 - performance up to 400 Kpps ---------for 7200
> Service Performance 6 Mpps--------------for 7600
>
> Does this mean 6509 is 1500 times faster that 7200 when they are
> doing packet switching?
>
> 4. 6509's strongest point is MLS, is this feature important in a
> border router? 6509 or 7200, which is better for a border router's role?
>
>
> Many thanks,
> Weidong
>
>
> ------- SOME DETAIL:
>
> cisco 7204VXR (NPE400) processor (revision A) with 245760K/16384K
> bytes of memory.
> R7000 CPU at 350Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 3.2, 256KB L2, 4096KB L3 Cache
>
> cisco 7206VXR (NPE400) processor (revision A) with 245760K/16384K
> bytes of memory.
> R7000 CPU at 350Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 3.2, 256KB L2, 4096KB L3 Cache
>
> cisco Catalyst 6000 (R7000) processor with 227328K/34816K bytes of memory.
> R7000 CPU at 300Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 1024KB L3 Cache
>
> cisco Cat6k-MSFC2 (R7000) processor with 229376K/32768K bytes of memory.
> R7000 CPU at 300Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 1024KB L3 Cache
> ......
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